Re: [Patch net-next v2 5/8] sunrpc: use generic union inet_addr

[Jim Rees <rees@umich.edu>]

Cong Wang wrote:

  On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 06:28 -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
  > 
  > My question is a bit more fundamental: Why are you using this new union
  > in your patches instead of simply passing around "struct sockaddr"
  > pointers? If you did that, then you could simply replace all of the
  > rpc_* wrappers with your generic ones, since you wouldn't need to do
  > the cast to this (seemingly unnecessary) union.
  
  Because there are some places have to interpret the structure, without
  this union, they need to cast to either sockaddr_in or sockaddr_in6
  first, which is not as pretty as using a union.
  
  For example, the code in netpoll:
  
  ipv6_addr_equal(daddr, &np->local_ip.sin6.sin6_addr)
  
  without the union, it would be:
  
  struct sockaddr_in6 *addr = (struct sockaddr_in6 *) &np->local_ip;
  ipv6_addr_equal(daddr, addr->sin6_addr);

Too bad ipv6_addr_equal() doesn't take a (void *).